Some Decision Problems in Groups

Wed, 01/05
16:00
Robert Kropholler (University of Oxford) Junior Geometric Group Theory Seminar Add to calendar SR2


To continue the day's questions of how complex groups can be I will be looking about some decision problems. I will prove that certain properties of finitely presented groups are undecidable. These properties are called Markov properties and include many nice properties one may want a group to have. I will also hopefully go into an algorithm of Whitehead on deciding if a set of n words generates F_n.